Mark Joseph Hohn

On Monday April 1st, 2024, Mark Hohn, loyal husband, faithful father, and friend to all, passed away at age 66 after a valiant battle against Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS).

Mark was welcomed into the world on April 17, 1957 in Helena, MT by his loving parents, Inez and Vincent Hohn. He attended Broadwater County HS and Metro State College before proudly joining and serving in the US Army for seven years, earning the rank of MP Sergeant. He married his high school sweetheart, Penny Geisser, in 1975, and was the proud father of five children, Travis, Michael, Matthew, April and Heidi and, eventually, the adoring grandfather of 20 grandchildren.

After his service, Mark moved his family to WA state where he worked at Pacific Rim Environmental and then Microsoft for 16 years as a Software Test Engineer and Principal IT Ops Lead before heading back to Pacific Rim as a General Manager. He was a cherished member of Mt Vineyard Christian Fellowship where he served as a Youth Group Leader to HS kids and ventured off to Jamaica, Mexico, and Nicaragua on mission trips. He was a Board Member at Bread of Life Mission and Cascade Mineralogical Society, President of the Puget Sound Beekeepers Assoc., and a hobby enthusiast to his very core. He loved to peruse, study, engineer and create as he bounced from molding concrete masterpieces, to raising bees, to designing and masterfully constructing his own CNC machine, with a sundry of other artistic amusements woven in between. But his most cherished avocation of all was his family, of which he never tired. He was their camp boss, master chef, project manager and fixer of all things. To him, they were his finest creations.

In his last years, while he battled the after-effects of MDS, bound to a wheelchair and burdened by a myriad of hospital stays, he still found time to create, sowing seeds and transforming pieces of pine into wings of hope and God’s unfathomable love. Though he is gone, his artistry remains.

Mark was preceded in death by his father Vincent, mother Inez and brothers Bob and Brian.

He is survived by his wife Penny, his five children and their spouses, Travis (Jill), Michael (Tristen), Matthew (Nichole), April (Jared) and Heidi (Jared), twenty grandchildren, and his siblings, Jim, Shelia, Tom, Beverly, and Dave and their families.

He was honorably laid to rest at Tahoma National Cemetery on Wednesday, April 10th.  There will be a Celebration of Life service at Mt Vineyard Christian Fellowship in Covington, WA on April 27th at 2:30pm. In lieu of flowers please feel free to donate to Fred Hutch’s Patient and Family Assistance Fund. They took good care of him.

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